In Between Shadows and Noise Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held...

In Between Shadows and Noise Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable. Thinking through Blackness, empire, and colonialism, Musser examines artworks ranging from Ming Smith's Flamingo Fandango, Jordan Peele's Us, and Katherine Dunham's Shango to Samita Sinha's This ember state, Titus Kaphar's A Pillow for Fragile Fictions, and Teresita Fernández's Puerto Rico (Burned) 6. She engages with these works from an embodied situatedness to grapple with the questions and sensations of racialization and difference that the works produce. Throughout, Musser rethinks how we consider the relationships between race, representation, and politics by dwelling in those spaces and concepts that elude Western norms of representation, objectivity, and logic. In so doing, she explores ways of being and knowing that exceed overdetermined parameters while offering a blueprint for sensing, imagining, and living otherwise.

Author: Amber Jamilla Musser
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/23/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781478030096

About the Author
Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance and Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism.